Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

Leon Battista Alberti Quotes & Sayings

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The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. — Leon Battista Alberti

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect. — Leon Battista Alberti

The movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. — Leon Battista Alberti

Painting contains a divine force which ... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti

The function of the painter is to render ... the visible surface so that at a certain distance ... and position it appears ... like the body itself. — Leon Battista Alberti

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. — Leon Battista Alberti

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist. — Leon Battista Alberti

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind ... — Leon Battista Alberti

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti

A man can do all things if he but wills them. — Leon Battista Alberti

A man can do all things if he will. — Leon Battista Alberti

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model. — Leon Battista Alberti

Men can do all things if they will. — Leon Battista Alberti

A person can do anything if they only will it strongly enough. — Leon Battista Alberti

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti

Buildings have been made because of man. — Leon Battista Alberti

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority. — Leon Battista Alberti

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it. — Leon Battista Alberti

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti

As ability goes, so goes our fortune. — Leon Battista Alberti

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part. — Leon Battista Alberti

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. — Leon Battista Alberti

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — Leon Battista Alberti